Decha hospital’s nurses file complaints against management for unpaid salaries

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Decha hospital’s nurses file complaints against management for unpaid salaries



BANGKOK: -- About 40 nurses of Decha hospital flocked to Phya Thai police station today (Thursday) to lodge complaints against the hospital’s management for its failure to pay them salaries for up to six months.

Ms Daroon Sathansathit, a nurse for six years at the Decha hospital, told Pol Lt Pikanet Triamkerdsap, the duty officer, that she received her last pay cheque in February for last December salary.

She said that it was not unusual for the hospital to pay the staff belatedly – sometimes once in two months. However, she admitted that most staff understood the hospital’s financial problem and the poor economic situation.

Ms Daroon told the police that the financial situation worsened after the arrival of a new management following the death last Novermber of the owner of the hospital.

She disclosed that she and her fellow nurses had earlier lodged complaints with the Labour Department against the management for the late payments.

The hospital was ordered closed for 30 days by the Department of Health Service Support on ground that the hospital is not in a position to provide medical care to patients due to shortage of staff. Several units in the hospital were shut down without prior permission from Public Health Ministry.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/163133


-- Thai PBS 2016-05-13

[KIWIBATCH]

New management have their noses and fingers in the money trough....it would seem

[trainman34014]

You can bet 'The Management' get their money on time and have also got the latest 'Company Cars' available.

Glad that some working people are starting to make noises when injustice occurs in the workplace, about time and a lot more noises are needed as there is a very long way to go.

[gandalf12]

"most staff understood the hospital’s financial problem and the poor economic situation" well maybe they do but that is not their job to accept management who obviously are not capable of running a hospital. The so called management will I am sure never go without their pay or perks.

This type of situation reminds me of when I worked in a hospital in Saudi. I had a team of 30 people mostly Filipino's. One day one of the guys came to see me and told me he was going on leave and the company was refusing to pay him his salary until he returned. I went and saw the Saudi National Guard finance department. My guy had his money in full in the afternoon. Hospital management is more representative of a feudal system. They are the bosses and they want everyone to bow to them.

[SOTIRIOS]

...bet the doctors are paid up...

...you know...the ones who 'passed their exams'.....etc.....

[smedly]

send in an auditor team and go through the accounts

[sanukjim]

As a civil suite would the proper step to be taken to go to the courts first and not the police? Thailand has very distorted laws as of what part of the government in in charge of what.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Second article on TV re this named hospital but still no location given. Phayathai Police Station mentioned so it maybe in Thailand.

'Surin' features frequently on TV often a report about a 'beach'. Surin is in the NE of Thailand (Issan) and the only beaches I know there are lakeside.

Why is there always an assumption that the reader knows the location of the subject?